2 FIELD NOTES ON APPLE CULTURE. 
teachings upon the subject, or when he can be induced 
to read good agricultural papers. As such offenders can- 
not be made to go to farmers’ meetings or to other public 
gatherings, however, I have thought that it might be an 
experiment worth trying to send to them agricultural 
papers regularly. Let them understand how much of 
work and of difficulty there is in growing crops, what 
the rights of the farmer are; in short, get them inter- 
ested in a progressive agriculture, and it appears to me 
that some, at least,-would be influenced for the better. 
For other reasons, also, ] have sometimes thought thet 
it would pay an intelligent community to circulate agri- 
cultural papers among the poor and illiterate families, 
The attitude of a grower towards all with whom he 
may come in contact, will largely determine the extent 
to which his fruit and vegetables will be pilfered. A 
man who is universally disliked may expect to suffer. I 
have often observed that college students, by common 
consent, do not pilfer from a man who is always kind 
and free-hearted, while their attitude towards a stingy or 
disagreeable man is quite the opposite. I once knew a 
man who-placed a great picket fence about his orchard 
and who kept armed men init all night, and I also knew 
many idlers who experienced the keenest delight in get- 
ting into that orchard. A neighbor who took no precau- 
tions lost less fruit. In a neighboring community the 
fruit growers posted in public places the law concerning 
trespass, and they reported good success from the _prac- 
tice. It appears to me that there is no subject more 
worthy of occasional discussion in farmers’ clubs, in the 
local paper, in the pulpit, in the Sunday school, than 
